Lambdin Hebrew-Lessons 3 and 4

דָּבָר

word; thing; matter

רָעָב

famine; hunger

[“I’m starving! There’s a famine in the land.” “Here, eat some lettuce raab.” “My hunger is not that bad.”]

אֶ֫רֶץ

land; earth

הַר

mountain

עַם

people; nation

גַּן

garden

[“Take a gander at my garden!”]

טוֹב

good

גָּדוֹל

great; large

קָטֹן

small

[A K ton is not small. That’s 2 million pounds.]

יָפֶה

beautiful; handsome

[“Yaffa is beautiful this time of year.”]

רַע

bad; evil

מְאֹד

much; very

שֹׁפֵט

judge (noun)

[And Ehud the judge said of King Eglon, “How fat is he?” “So fat!”]

מַלְאָךְ

messenger; angel

כִּסֵּא

throne; chair

[“Kneel before the throne of the king and kiss his feet!”]

כֹּתֵב

writing

אֹכֵל

eating

נֹתֵן

giving, setting, placing

[The critic is giving me note ten.]

הֹלֵך

walking

יֹשֵׁב

sitting, dwelling

[“Hey, I’m sitting in the barber’s chair. Yo! Shave!” “And a haircut. Two bits.”]

אֵת

direct object marker

לְ

to; for

אֶל־

to; toward

בְּעֵינֵי

in the eyes of

[“Benny is in the eyes of the beholder.” “I thought it was ‘beauty’.”]